Trump blames predecessors for national security failures

Published December 18, 2017 7:34pm ET



President Trump blamed his predecessors on Monday for gradually surrendering U.S. sovereignty “to foreign bureaucrats” and failing to keep Americans safe, announcing in a major national security speech that his administration will root its foreign policy in “principled realism” going forward.

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